Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/28/07 22:23

Neil (nospam@nospam.net) writes:
> I'm using an Access MDB as a front end to a SQL 7 database. When I place
> the system time in a field in Access, it used the user's clock. I'd like
> to use the SQL Server system time, so that the times will be
> synchronized. I suppose I can just do a pass-through query with "select
> getdate()." But I was wondering if there was some built-in method,
> either in Access or SQL Server. I'm concerned about the overhead of
> running a pass-through query every time I need the current time.

It you want the time on the server, "SELECT getdate()" is probably the
simplest way to do it. But you could of course make a remote procedure
call outside SQL Server as a little exercise in Windows programming
if you like. I can't see that's worth the pain, though.


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